Good news In case you don't know or you don't remember who is Binyam Mohamed then he is the same man his story was told in this BBC documentary I seeded before. CIA Mystery Flights Reported today: Guantanamo prisoner sues US firm over rendition flights Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian who lived in the UK.....said to have been originally arrested by Pakistani immigration officials at Karachi ...
Avaaz.org is a new online network that provides opportunities for citizens of every country to take concerted action on urgent global problems like climate change, poverty, and the crisis in the Middle East. Avaaz.org’s mission is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decisions. It will launch with 880,000 participants from 198 countries and ...
For three years before his death from poisoning, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko had been making a documentary with his friend Andrei Nekrasov about authoritarianism in post-communist Russia. Here is that film, the unexpected ending of which made world headlines at the end of 2006. Nekrasov sent a letter to the Finish newspaper HELSINGIN SANOMAT from the bedside of his poisoned ...
The title is misleading, you may think it is just a “flag waving� American documentary but it is not, screened on Dutch “Channel 3� last week means its not US propaganda. Interview with three badly-injured American soldiers, two of them are “too Americans� blame Iraq and the Iraqis and they wish that the Iraq to be destroyed [Bush did this already]. The ...
ICRC locations in Iraq US sponsored “Death Squads� strike again "IRC" Aid workers kidnapped in Baghdad According Al-Jazeera reporter: The gunmen wearing police uniform took the men only. This kidnapping happened a day after “Iraqi Red Crescent� criticized the US forces operations in Iraq referring to the US forces as the main problem in Iraq, fully supported by "ICRC" main body in GENEVA. ...
A Russian anti-terror hit team raided the offices of the oppositional "United Civil Front" in Moscow. It's founder, Garry Kasparov, was removed from a German TV news discussion, at the behest of Russian authorities. Things are looking dangerous for the former world chess champion. Garry Kasparov: I was at the national congress of our coalition "The other Russia", when ten or ...
This astonishing, significant and powerful documentary will be screened in “IDFA� International Documentary Festival. In WE FEED THE WORLD, Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria. A film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate ...
Reported on the “Times� and “Spiegel� [via Keld Bach] A coalition of human rights groups has filed a criminal lawsuit against former US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld in Germany, accusing him of war crimes. A first attempt to prosecute him in 2004 failed, but the activists feel they have a better chance this time -- and they have a powerful ...
Inspired by an earlier Ads “Raging Bull�, Amnesty International released a new clip in their campaign “stop violence against women�. The new clip shows; women in toilet in a nightclub, one of them get beaten up by an invisible man while the other women were careless. The clip ends with: "In some countries up to 69% of women have been physically abused ...
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Just listened to Zawahiri's speech after I read these reports say that he used "insult" words.
Zawahri uses the word "Abid" or "Abd" translated directly to English as "slave" but it also means "addicted" or "loyal".
You can find the same word in many Arabic names such as these of the King of Saudi Arabia or Jordan "Abd"dullah.
The English word "negro" transited to Arabic as "Zinji" is more racial and insulting than "Abd", because "Zinji" or even "Aswad" = "black" usually refers to an ethnic inferior minority.
According to Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, Davis Miliband in his visit to Syria, had a letter from Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to Bashar Al-Asad assured him of Israel's willingness to continue the negotiations.
According to Al-Akhbar, Gadhafi's son visit to the U.S. aimed to promote the transfer of power and to approve father-son succession in Libya, especially that he will visit Jewish activists in the U.S.
As reported on Al-Akhbar:
Western countries intelligence services and particularly France started to accuse Saudi Arabia of arming the fundamentals in Lebanon after they found special guns and arms sold by France at the time of the former President Jacques Chirac to Saudi Arabia.
Good report on the Palestinian newspaper Al-Manar on Hamas options and the next move:
Sources close to Hamas said that the movement is in a very difficult position, reluctant to launch attacks on Israel and would prefer to wait until the U.S. political situation to stabilize.
Hamas leaders in exile want to exercise restraint, but they are unable to control the military commanders. Hamas has three options:
1- To go towards Egypt and continue the peace dialogue [with Fatah] immediately and unconditionally.
2- To continue the "calculated" escalation, without pushing the situation to the exploding point.
3- Its called the suicidal option:
A- Armed operation in areas surrounds Gaza strip, joined by other armed factions, but any direct confrontation will hurt Hamas heavily.
B- To confront the Israeli pressure with attacks outside the Gaza strip, in the West Bank or inside Israel, trying to boost its negotiations demands.
The story of the hijacked Saudi oil tanker "Sirius Star" is escalating but yet there are few confusing reports on the Saudi media.
The strange thing is what Saudi funded newspaper AL-Sharq AL-Awsat reported this morning:
The Saudi border guards denied the reports of a hijacked Saudi ship; they [border guards] did not receive any distress call from any ship or Saudi oil tanker exposed to a piracy operation.
The most confusing is what Saudi newspaper reported this morning:
[Saudi oil tanker] "Sirius Star" is liberated.
A Saudi source confirmed the release of "Sirius Star".
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